Yawn

I've just been asleep. It's the only sane thing to do in this weather. The wind is whistling outside and it's been grey, dark and soggy all day. I can't function properly unless I can go outside. Which I could, of course, but not without getting wet and blown about.

This morning, I had a go at papier mache. I seem obsessed with making things with old paper. I like the idea of transforming junk mail and old newspapers into something new. I used some paper that had been soaking since my last paper-making session, so it was good and soft. I covered a bowl with cling film and put a layer of the soaked paper into the inside, overlapping strips across each other. Then I pasted on a good layer of wallpaper paste. I repeated the process until I'd used all the soaked paper. Then I finished with a layer of my handmade paper that I'd made with the same soaked paper last week.

It is clearly going to take days to dry, but was strangely satisfying to make. I have no idea what it will become, or what I will do with it, but it's great fun relearning how to do papier mache.

I started knitting again, but was so dopy I kept dropping stitches. Hence the nap. I feel more able to do something now. Sometimes you just have to have a kip.